Margot Singer is an American

short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ...

writer and novelist. Her book ''The Pale of Settlement'' won the

Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press in to a North American writer in a blind-judging contest for a collection of English language short stories. The collection is subsequently ...

in 2006 and her novel ''Underground Fugue'' was listed as "one of the most anticipated books by women in 2017" by

Elle Magazine ''Elle'' (stylized in all caps) is a worldwide magazine of French origin that offers a mix of fashion and beauty content, and society and lifestyle. The title ''Elle'' means ''She'' in French. ''Elle'' is considered "one of the world's largest ...

Biography

She graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

for her undergraduate degree,

Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...

with a M.Phil. in 1986 after she was awarded a

Marshall Scholarship The Marshall Scholarship is a postgraduate scholarship for "intellectually distinguished young Americans ndtheir country's future leaders" to study at any university in the United Kingdom. It is considered among the most prestigious scholarsh ...

, and

University of Utah The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public university, public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret (Book of Mormon), Deseret by the General A ...

with a Ph.D. in 2005. Singer worked for the management consulting firm

McKinsey & Company McKinsey & Company (informally McKinsey or McK) is an American multinational strategy and management consulting firm that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. Founded in 1926 by James O. McKinse ...

from 1986 until 1997, where she was a Principal in the New York Office. She teaches at

Denison University Denison University is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Granville, Ohio, United States. One of the earliest colleges established in the former Northwest Territory, Denison University was founded in 1831. It was first called ...

Granville, Ohio Granville is a Village (United States)#Ohio, village in Licking County, Ohio, United States. The population was 5,946 at the United States Census 2020, 2020 census. The village is located in a rural area of hills, known locally as the Welsh Hills ...

and at

Queens University of Charlotte The Queens University of Charlotte is a private university in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. It has approximately 1,900 undergraduate and graduate students. Established in 1857, the university offers 50 undergraduate majors, 58 minors, ...

. She lives with her husband and two children in

. Her work has appeared ''Agni'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', ''Shenandoah'', ''The Western Humanities Review'', ''The North American Review'', ''The Sun'', among other magazines.

Awards

* 2006

for ''The Pale of Settlement'' * Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers for ''The Pale of Settlement'' * Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction for ''The Pale of Settlement'' *

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the feder ...

Fellowship * Carter Prize for the Essay * 2013 James Jones Literary Society First Novel Fellowship for ''The Art of Fugue'', later retitled ''Underground Fugue''."James Jones Fellowship Contest"
,

Wilkes University Wilkes University is a private university in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It has over 2,200 undergraduates and over 2,200 graduate students (both full and part-time). Wilkes was founded in 1933 as a satellite campus of Bucknell University, and bec ...

, retrieved 2012-09-19.

Works

* * ''Underground Fugue'', Meville House,

References

External links

"Author's website"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Singer, Margot American short story writers Harvard University alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford University of Utah alumni Denison University faculty Queens University of Charlotte faculty Living people People from Granville, Ohio Year of birth missing (living people)